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C H R I S T I A N I T Y vs. S A T A N I S M MUSIC Amy Grant vs. Dead Can Dance Hymns vs. This Mortal Coil CLOTHING khaki pants vs. leather pants Laura Ashley look vs. Perry Farrell look Gap/Crew/Bauer connection vs. Highlander-the TV series ACCESSORIES cookies vs. body piercings vacuum cleaner vs. tribal tatoos RECREATIONAL PASTTIMES church bake sale vs. Renaissance Fair bingo nite vs. fetish nite PREFERRED MODE OF TRANSPORTATION minivan vs. motorcycle MOVIE Sound of Music vs. The Crow EMPLOYMENT full salary & benefits vs. ret

There was this windbag at my old company who might have served the purpose, but he was fat and would have weighed things down a lot on the ascents. I can't see wearing him around my neck on the slopes, though in my old job he was basically draped around my neck the whole time.

What's the best nanpa resort then?

I can hardly write a single kanji by hand, but using a computer I can compose intelligible business letters full of the most beautiful kanji. How did I get to be this way? Keitai mail to/from girls! Thank you, J-Phone! Highly recommended as a study aid. If algebra and geography had involved constant interaction with beautiful fun-loving gals, I'd have had a much easier time of it in middle school. Instead, I got the withered 72-year-old Ms. Troyer for math, and the rather shockingly obese Ms. Fisher for geography. It was said that Ms. Fisher was selected for stud

Mabye Satan-worship works like smoking cigarettes...in spite of sensible advice to the contrary, some people willingly participate in spite of the consequences.

I thought logic had disproved royalty. These people are like the hood ornament on a car...no practical value, and looking around you don't see too many of those anymore either. There is one kind of queen still worthy of worshipping on bended knee, however.

As usual, I'm not saying that I'm right, I'm merely saying that everyone else is wrong!

Ocean, I'm merely saying that we just don't yet know what all is out there, and until we do, we are just making guesses about cosmology and religion. Nothing wrong with that, just that you can't say god/religion has been proved or disproved. Based on the trend to which you refer, and the level to which our currently-popular religions have been scientifically de-bunked, it seems reasonable to assume that they, and the concept of god(s) they contain, are fully wide of the mark. In other words, our current concept of divine may be obsolete. It hasn't changed significantly over many cent

So now a lot of people believe in logic. Here's 2 observations about that: 1. LOGIC IS SMALLER THAN RELIGION Logic's a tool, like a pasta making machine. Sometimes you take the machine out of the cupboard, put some stuff in it, turn the handle, and a result comes out the other end. You can't put in the wrong ingredients and get a good result. Clearly, that's not the role that religion plays in the lives of its believers. When you lose religion and get logic, logic does not fill up the space left empty by religion. What's my point here? Simply that religion and log

Let's say you are employed in a Japanese-speaking office and you have a computer at your desk. Now, how are you going to make it through the day? Cruising up and down the Internet gets noticed pretty fast, either by the boss's eyes, or through IT Dept. stats showing how many times you clicked and on what URLs. Scary! Is there no personal freedom left in the world?! Don't you wish you could just curl up with a coffee and a good book... Maybe one of those great novels that you always thought you might read, but never got around to? Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, Count

Hey Lama, where are you going this year? Niseko, then France, and now what? Do tell!!

Ocean--sorry, I thought the rhetorical device to which you were referring was the offering of the cigar.

How about renting a high school gym?

We found a place that shows second-run films for $1.50. Has 10 big screens too. Now playing are 28 Days Later, Terminator 3, Jeepers Creepers 2, Charlie's Angels 2, Tomb Raider 2 and a few others that I never would have paid full price to see, but that now seem a great idea at $1.50.

A "micro-reality"...nicely put. I want to see Samurai Fiction too. I'm afraid to rent it until I hear from someone else what it is like. Did I mention that I went on a few dates with Lucy Liu back in 1987/88?

I'm not here saying this movie is a social outrage, offensive and should be boycotted. Nor am I taking an ivory-tower position that the movie fails this standard or that test of quality. I'm just saying after all the hype and rave reviews, well, it kind of sucked. Let me put it this way: Know how it is in Japan when you see a Japanese movie scene set in New York City, but all the white guys have Aussie accents and the black guys have African accents and they all act weird, with mannerisms and statements that only a Japanese person would ascribe to a "gaijin"? Because tha

I don't know... I don't perceive great uniformity or consistency from one Hollywood film to another, so I'm not really sure what general statement to make about how Hollywood views or depicts the USA. One thing I noticed while watching Kill Bill was that much of it transpires in an imaginary, fetishized Asian cinema space borne out of exhaustive viewing of kung fu, Samurai and Hong-Kong action flicks...and that is a purely fictive, imaginary space. So it's easy for Tarantino and Hollywood to transgress, manipulate or enact within it, and no judge or populus from this imaginary space coul

Just saw it with my wife...she found it hard to sit through for all the stereotyping, cheap shots and demeaningly Hollywood-Asian-cinephile-driven treatment of Japan and Japanese. We went in there knowing how it was pitched, liking other Tarantino flicks, and aware that it is supposed to be hip and tongue-in-cheek. But in the end it seemed like just a "hip" re-doing of a white otaku's imaginary fetishistically Asian cinematopia. Another white-guy-out-Asians-the-Asians flick. The latest nugget in a bucket of bad broth starting with Shogun, extending through the Karate Kid and American

This is all fantastic! Go, Siren, go! I am following this with bated breath.

I've enough mileage for a free JAL roundtrip. I have to be ticketed by Dec. 31, but the actual travel can happen after that. Mogs how about another Hirafu Chalet boondoggle?! You can teach me to ski powder. Shall we leave the women at home this year?

Fox News..."fair and balanced"... I think that says it all.

I was watching the TV news last night and it seems they are charging this kid...unbelievable. There was a sound-bite of a righteous suited federal prosecutor blaring out something like "it doesn't matter what the motivation or background was, this person committed a CRIME"... It's enough to make one puke with disgust. I would have thought the head of the affected agency would have come forth to explain to an outraged public how this person could so easily get these prohibited items onto the plane when security checks are so incredibly invasive, annoying and time consuming. What,

I live four minutes from a Vans skatepark that is deserted on weekday mornings and afternoons. A rank beginner, I was drawn to the vert ramp and after a few weeks I was actually getting about 2 meters up each side, and managing a few frontside and backside spins, as well as pumping to get more height. What a great feeling! Then my knee began to hurt something awful and I went back to my knee doctor. "What?!" he said, "you had arthroscopic surgery in July to remove most of your right meniscus, and now, at 40 years old, as part of your 'rehab' you take up vert skating and wonder w

I'm running out of money and looking for a job. Do you guys think I could get paid to do spellcheck and basic grammar cleanup on snowboard and ski mags? Maybe I could just charge them $50 for my list of top 5 mistakes so often seen that they may become the norm. Seeing these in e-mails, posts and short memos that are whipped off is fine, but in a nationally-published glossy magazine?! Sheesh. 1. The difference between "its" and "it's" 2. How to spell the word "definitely" (hint: there's no "a" in it) 3. The difference between "their" and "there" 4. The differen

Here's my personal ust-haves for goggle shopping: 1. Double-walled lenses to prevent fogging...accept no substitute. 2. Easily available/inexpensive replacement lenses and/or different color lenses...because believe me, once your lenses get scratched up (this will happen), you'll be happy if you can make them like-new again with replacement lenses, rather than having to buy a totally new, expensive pair of goggles. 3. Must fit my face shape without letting wind in here or there, and without blocking my field of vision. If you can find something like this, then forget ab